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Orbital Tracking
Orbital tracking allows your telescope to follow the motion of the solar system body instead of tracking at the normal sidereal rate This allows the the maximum signal to noise ratio for weak asteroids, and crisp comet imaging. PinPoint can successfully plate-solve with moderately streaked stars, so you'll usually still get World Coordinate System (WCS) information in the FITS headers of your images.
Orbital tracking is maintained across multiple exposures, so your target remains centered throughout a long series of exposures. Later, you can stack and align the images using the WCS or other techniques. In addition, orbital tracking is maintained across multiple solar system bodies; the tracking rate is automatically adjusted to match each target's velocity.
While orbital tracking is enabled, if a deep sky object is encountered in your plan, orbital tracking is automatically switched off temporarily. It is automatically re-enabled when another solar system body appears in the plan.
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